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Family, Health Economics, Education
The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children’s Long-Term Outcomes, (with Uta Schönberg), American Economic Journal - Applied, forthcoming.
Apprenticeship Training and Commitment to Training Provision (joint with Uta Schoenberg; accepted subject to minor revision at the American Economic Journal - Applied
Ethnicity and Educational Achievement in Compulsory Schooling (joint with Steve Machin and Uta Schoenberg); Economic Journal, 2011, 120(546), F272-F297
In-School Labour Supply, Parental Transfers, and Wages, (with A. vanSoest and John Micklewright; Empirical Economics, 2009, 37, (1), 201-218
Part-Time Work, School Success and School Leaving (with A. vanSoest), Empirical Economics Vol. 32, pp.277–299 (2007)
Gender and Ethnicity-Married Immigrants in Britain (with Francesca Fabbri), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol.21, no.3, 2005.
Intra-Household Transfers and the Part-Time Work of Children (with John Micklewright), CEPR Discussion Paper No 2796, May 2001.
Wages and the Demand for Health - A Life Cycle Analysis (with Frank Windmeijer), IZA Discussion Paper No 171, July 2000.
Parental background, secondary school track choice, and wages, Oxford Economic Papers 56 (2004), 209-230.
Class Size, Education, and Wages (with Najma Rajah and Arthur van Soest), forthcoming Economic Journal Features, 2003.
Teenage Truancy, Working Habits, and Wages, (with Najma Rajah and Stephen Smith), Journal of Population Economics, 10, pp. 425-442, 1997.
Earnings and Learning: Educational Policy and the Growth of Part-Time Work by Full-Time pupils (With John Micklewright, Najma Rajah, and Stephen Smith), Fiscal Studies, 22, pp.215-250.
Wages and Mobility
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